Odd candidates who got votes at the party conventions

[RBH]

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=2094&ShowPrimaries=Y

I don't know if Paul "Bear" Bryant really got one vote at the 1968 DNC.

Then again, this..

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=5768&ShowPrimaries=Y

claims all sorts of wacky VP convention votes.

Especially the 1972 DNC VP ballot.

They should have went with McGovern/Farenthold!

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Who is Farenthold? Wiki has nothing on him\her.

Interesting that Mike Gravel finished third.

[Saxwsylvania]

"Sissy" Farenthold was a woman from Texas.  She was a nobody who just walked into the convention and asked people to vote for her for vice president. 

Mike Gravel was a pompous ass.  He actually nominated himself for vice president, but George McGovern of all people didn't want him to get any votes (seeing as how Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh, and Walter Mondale all refused the veep spot, it shows you how desperate and awful Gravel must have been to volunteer for it).

[RBH]

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=36445

She was apparently in the Texas state legislature, and she got to a runoff in the Governor's race in 1972.

[CPT MikeyMike]

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/ContainerHistory.html?ContainerID=2094&ShowPrimaries=Y

I don't know if Paul "Bear" Bryant really got one vote at the 1968 DNC.

I'm not sure if that is fact or myth.  Didn't John Wayne get a vote at the RNC in 68?

[RBH]

That page claims that Robert Bork got a vote for President in 1996.

And the page also claims a vote for Roger Staubach for VP in 1976 at the RNC.

And a vote for Hunter S. Thompson for VP at the 1976 DNC.

Ford/Staubach v. Carter/Thompson!

The 1972 DNC VP results

Thomas F. Eagleton 1,742 59.07%   
Frances T. "Sissy" Farenthold 405 13.73%   
Maurice "Mike" Gravel 226 7.66%   
Endicott "CHUB" Peabody 108 3.66%   
Clay Smothers 74 2.51%   
Birch Evan Bayh 62 2.10%   
Peter Wallace Rodino, Jr. 57 1.93%
Jimmy Carter 30 1.02%   
Shirley A. Chisholm 20 0.68%   
Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu 19 0.64%   
Edward T. "Ned" Breathitt 18 0.61%   
Ted Kennedy 15 0.51%   
Fred Roy Harris 14 0.47%
Richard G. Hatcher 11 0.37%   
Harold Everett Hughes 10 0.34%   
Joseph Manuel Montoya 9 0.31%   
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III 8 0.27%   
William L. Guy 8 0.27%   
Robert "Bob" Bergland 5 0.17% 
Hodding Carter, III 5 0.17%   
César Estrada Chávez 5 0.17%   
Wilbur D. Mills 5 0.17%   
Roberto A. Mondragon 4 0.14%   
John J. Houlihan 4 0.14%   
Ronald V. "Ron" Dellums 4 0.14% 
Stanley Arnold 4 0.14%   
Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson 4 0.14%   
Herman Badillo 3 0.10%   
Claiborne de Borda Pell 3 0.10%   
J. Terry Sanford 3 0.10%   
Eugene Joseph McCarthy 3 0.10% 
Reubin O'Donovan Askew 3 0.10%   
H. Patrick "Pat" Taylor Jr. 2 0.07%
Ernest Gruening 2 0.07%   
Leonard F. Woodcock 2 0.07%   
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff 2 0.07%   
Claude D. Pepper 2 0.07% 
Edmund Sixtus Muskie 2 0.07%   
Roger Mudd 2 0.07%   
John DeCarlo 2 0.07%   
Richard J. Daley 2 0.07%   
Ramsey Clark 2 0.07%   
Eleanor Stegeberg McGovern 1 0.03% 
Mao Zedong 1 0.03%   
Allard K. Lowenstein 1 0.03%   
Robert Kariss 1 0.03%   
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson 1 0.03%   
Dan Inouye 1 0.03%   
James Baxter "Jim" Hunt, Jr. 1 0.03% 
Ralph Nader 1 0.03%   
George Norcross 1 0.03%   
Jerry Rubin 1 0.03%   
Fred Seaman 1 0.03%   
Joe Smith 1 0.03%   
Benjamin Spock 1 0.03% 
George Corley Wallace 1 0.03%   
Martha Mitchell 1 0.03%   
Patricia R. Harris 1 0.03%   
Martha Griffiths 1 0.03%   
Patrick Tavolacci 1 0.03%   
Charles Hamilton 1 0.03% 
Michael Griffin 1 0.03%   
Ernest Albright 1 0.03%   
William A. Barrett 1 0.03%   
Daniel Berrigan 1 0.03%   
Philip Berrigan 1 0.03%   
Julian Bond 1 0.03% 
William Bonnette 1 0.03%   
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles 1 0.03%   
Archibald "Archie" Bunker 1 0.03%   
Phillip Burton 1 0.03%   
William V. "Bill" Chappell, Jr. 1 0.03%   
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. 1 0.03% 
Frank Forrester Church 1 0.03%   
Leon Cook 1 0.03%   
George A. Dowdy 1 0.03%   
Robert Frederick Drinan 1 0.03%   
Nick Galifianakis 1 0.03%   
John Goodrich 1 0.03% 
Bruno Agnoli 1 0.03%

This actually delayed the DNC so far that McGovern's speech started at 2am.

[minionofmidas]

Cesar Chavez/Mao Zedong '72!

[Middle-aged Europe]

Cesar Chavez/Mao Zedong '72!

Benjamin Spock/George Wallace!

[jimrtex]

Cesar Chavez/Mao Zedong '72!

Benjamin Spock/George Wallace!

Richard J Daley/Jerry Rubin

Ernest Gruening/Dan Inouye

Peter Rodino/Martha Mitchell